Contributions to the history of Australasian ornithology
By: edited by William E. Davis, Jr. ... [et al.].
Contributors: Nuttall Ornithological Club
Series: Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club -- no. 14, 18; Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club -- no. 14, 18.
Publisher: Nuttall Ornithological Club
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781877973437
Subjects: Ornithology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A man of great zeal and assiduity: the pioneering naturalist John Gilbert in Australia, 1838-1845  -- Clemency Fisher; title: Ornithology at the Auckland Museum, New Zealand  -- B.J. Gill; title: A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum  -- R.E. Johnstone; title: The role of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO) in Australian ornithology  -- Ian Rowley; title: The changing faces of systematics and biogeography in Australian ornithology: a young Turk's view  -- Leo Joseph; title: Establishing a national reference collection of birds: the first forty years of the birds of the Austrlian National Wildlife Collection  -- Richard Schodde; title: The history of threatened birds in Australia and its offshore islands -- Stephen T. Garnett and Gabriel M. Crowley.